Orlow Seunke
{{Short description|Dutch director and screenwriter}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|22 September 1952}}
| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Orlow Seunke (born 22 September 1952) is a Dutch director, screenwriter and producer.
Life and career
Born in Amsterdam, Seunke studied at the Dutch Film Academy, graduating in 1975.{{cite book |title=Dutch Film |date=1987 |publisher=Government Pub. Office |isbn=978-90-12-05602-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0K8qAQAAIAAJ&q=Orlow+Seunke+1952+1975 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Filmfestival opent met Orlow Seunke |url=https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/filmfestival-opent-met-orlow-seunke~b176cd0d/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F |access-date=19 March 2022 |work=Trouw |date=30 July 1997 |language=nl-NL}}
After directing several shorts and TV works, Seunke made his feature film debut in 1982 with the critical acclaimed The Hes Case, which premiered at the 39th edition of the Venice Film Festival in which it won the Silver Lion for Best First Work, and which later was the recipient several other accolades including the Critics' Award at the Toronto Film Festival and the Bronze Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival.{{Cite news |last=Bailey |first=Bruce |date=5 November 1986 |title=Prized Dutch director is ho-hum about Hollywood |language=en |page=27 |work=Montreal Gazette |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/422587206/?terms=%22Orlow%20Seunke%22%20venice&match=1 |access-date=19 March 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}} His second work Tracks in the Snow was entered into the main competition at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival{{cite book |last1=Verstraten |first1=Peter |title=Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis |date=2021 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-90-485-5172-9 |pages=100–2 |language=en |chapter=Father as a memory image: Pervola, sporen in de sneeuw}} and won the Golden Calf Special Jury Prize at the Netherlands Film Festival.
In 2002 Seunke left the Netherlands and moved to Indonesia.{{cite news |last1=Wedhatama |first1=Berto |title=Orlow Seunke: The man behind the screen |url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/04/26/orlow-seunke-the-man-behind-screen.html |access-date=19 March 2022 |work=The Jakarta Post |date=26 April 2014 |language=en}} Between 2003 and 2006 he was the artistic director of the Jakarta International Film Festival.{{cite news |last1=Wedhatama |first1=Berto |title=Orlow Seunke: The man behind the screen |url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/04/26/orlow-seunke-the-man-behind-screen.html |access-date=19 March 2022 |work=The Jakarta Post |date=26 April 2014 |language=en}}
Selected filmography
- 1982 - The Hes Case
- 1985 - Tracks in the Snow
- 1991 - Oh Boy!
- 1997 - Tropic of Emerald
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|nm0786190}}
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Category:People from Amsterdam